Do high school students in the United States learn about the Armenian Genocide?” This is a surprisingly difficult question to ...

Niehoff-Panagiotidis, a professor at the Free University of Berlin, said the oldest of the roughly 25,000 Ottoman works found in the monastic libraries dates to 1374, or 1371.

Forgetting the Ottoman past has done the Arabs no good. As a historian of the Ottoman Empire, I believe it is criminal to keep millions of people disconnected from their own recent past.

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

Halil Inalcik did some of the fundamental work in Ottoman military history, as in so many other areas of Ottoman history. Among other topics, he studied early expansion in the Balkans, the conquest of ...

In 1565, the mighty Ottoman Empire launched a massive siege against the tiny island of Malta expecting a swift victory. But ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman History and World Wars continues with a video on why the Arabs revolted against the Ottomans before and during the Great ...

His dissertation formed the basis of his highly influential book “Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli” (1986), which many scholars credit for transforming the ...

Felek, who teaches Ottoman Turkish, incorporated the manuscripts into “Reading and Research in Ottoman History and Literature,” a course she taught in the fall of 2019. Her 10 students — seven ...

In the words of a Venetian diplomat of the time, the Ottoman emperor was “rich in revenue, men and obedience”—all the elements needed to wage total war on the world’s infidels.

Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts. IE 11 is not supported.